Date inside iterator

[Sachin Adat]

Can someone lead me to a good struts 2 iterator tutorial.
I want to show a date (basically use <s:date>) inside an iterator.

[Ankit Garg]

Did you look at the iterator tag reference??

[Sachin Adat]

Yes Ankit, I started from that
and I am able to see my date in long using this:

<s:iterator value="occurrences" status="rowStatus">
    <s:property value="startTime" />
</s:iterator>    

But I want to see it in the date format, something like this:

<s:date name="startTime" format="MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a"/> 

which comes as empty

[Sachin Adat]

Has no one ever got a requirement like this

[Ankit Garg]

Is the startTime property a Date object or something else. You said that when you use s:property to print the date, you get it in long format, but the toString method of Date class doesn't print a long value. Its not clearly given in the documentation of s:date tag whether it accepts only date objects or not (I've never used s:date so I can't say anything for sure)...

[Sachin Adat]

Wow, nice catch Ankit, the place where I was using s:date without an iterator was a date and it was working fine.
And, inside the iterator I m getting a long, so it would not show the date.

Thanks a lot, I think I can fix it now